Rulings
A running timeline of regulator, court, legislature, and filing-revealed decisions that change what AI builders can or must do — each item names the issuing body, jurisdiction, who is bound, and what is now different.
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Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove AI deepfakes within 48 hours under FTC enforcement
Platforms that primarily host user-generated content must now accept removal requests for AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and comply within 48 hours, or face FTC civil fines of approximately $53,088 per violation. The notice-and-removal enforcement regime became effective May 19, 2026, one year after the law was signed by President Trump.
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EU provisionally agrees to delay high-risk AI enforcement, ban AI nudifiers, and push back watermarking deadline
The European Parliament and Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on May 7, 2026 to amend the EU AI Act through the AI Digital Omnibus. The agreement delays enforcement of rules governing most high-risk AI systems to December 2027 or August 2028, adds a prohibition on AI-generated non-consensual intimate content effective December 2026, and pushes the watermarking obligation for AI-generated content to December 2026.
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Denver bans new data center construction for one year while city studies permanent regulations
Denver's City Council voted Monday to prohibit any new data center construction within city limits for one year. The moratorium covers new facilities only; the city's 50 existing data centers and those already under construction are exempt.
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Colorado rewrites its AI anti-discrimination law before it ever took effect, shifting compliance from systems to individual decisions
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 26-189 on May 14, 2026, repealing and replacing the state's 2024 AI Act. The new law abandons the original's system-level compliance architecture — advance bias audits, risk management programs, and ongoing monitoring — in favor of decision-level accountability: plain-language disclosure after adverse AI-assisted decisions, a right to challenge and correct the underlying data, and a right to human review where commercially reasonable.